abilene -> he.net routing humor

[Iljitsch van Beijnum]

On 6-jun-2005, at 15:47, Eric Gauthier wrote:

[a long message]

I'm sorry, but I really don't understand any of that.

All I know is that when I connect to a research IPv6 network (which  
often happens at IETF meetings), I have huge difficulties connecting  
to my stuff at home.

This is an example of how this works:

# traceroute6 chinng-mren.abilene.ucaid.edu
traceroute6 to chinng-mren.abilene.ucaid.edu (2001:468:ff:fc3::1)  
from 2001:1af8:2:5::2, 30 hops max, 12 byte packets
1  2001:1af8:2:5::1  0.612 ms *  0.633 ms
2  2001:1af8:1:15:20e:39ff:fe3c:2aaa  18.208 ms  1.171 ms  1.015 ms
3  tunnel6.6bb1.AD1-Amsterdam.ipv6.teleglobe.net  1.776 ms !N  1.841  
ms !N  1.555 ms !N

# traceroute6 chinng-mren.abilene.ucaid.edu
traceroute6 to chinng-mren.abilene.ucaid.edu (2001:468:ff:fc3::1)  
from 2001:600:8:34::2, 30 hops max, 12 byte packets
1  6b2.ams7.alter.net  3.310 ms  2.541 ms  2.879 ms
2  tu2.6B1.FFT4.ALTER.NET  10.716 ms  10.259 ms  9.979 ms
3  tif-6bone2uunet-nl.ipv6.uni-muenster.de  36.405 ms  37.532 ms   
37.129 ms
4  3ffe:1001:1:f011::1  52.695 ms  54.506 ms  52.553 ms
5  gw2-bk1.ipv6.tilab.com  50.835 ms  52.611 ms  52.163 ms
6  3ffe:1001:1:f017::2  232.032 ms  231.215 ms  231.097 ms
7  3ffe:80a::e  336.059 ms  333.151 ms  335.731 ms
8  3ffe:80a::bd  391.840 ms  384.990 ms  395.751 ms
9  dnvrng-snvang.abilene.ucaid.edu  408.757 ms  419.526 ms  447.008 ms
10  kscyng-dnvrng.abilene.ucaid.edu  420.447 ms  432.225 ms  423.243 ms
11  iplsng-kscyng.abilene.ucaid.edu  474.287 ms  452.181 ms  427.864 ms
12  *^C

In what universe does this make sense?